PARLIAMENT Effective this year, the Auditor-General's report on the federal government, statutory bodies and state government activities will be tabled in a three-part series.

Series 1 and 2 of the 2012 report was tabled in Parliament today.

Series 3 is expected to be presented next month with the auditor-general's financial and management statements of the federal ministries and departments.

NONEThis presentation format is aimed at enabling speedier follow-up action and improvements on the issues raised by the audit.

Another initiative is the auditor-general's online Dashboard,
launched by the chief secretary to the government on May 30, which will go live today.

The Dashboard allows the public access to the status of follow-up action on the issues raised from the 2011 audit report onwards.

The auditor-general's statement further outlined the other two National Key Results Areas (NKRA) initiatives, namely the setting up of an action committee and the Putrajaya Inquisition.

The task of the action committee, which is chaired by the auditor-general, is to ensure that suspected corruption cases identified in the audit report are investigated.

The Putrajaya Inquisition, chaired by the prime minister, will handle overdue cases which have yet to be resolved.

Series 1 and 2 of the Auditor-General's report 2012 involved 121
performance audits and 49 audits of government corporations management at the federal and state levels.

The scope of audit covered construction, maintenance, law enforcement, acquisition, asset management, tax revenue management, enhancement of socio-economic programmes, agriculture, infrastructure, information and communication technology and corporate management.

The Treasury has also issued a feedback report on the Series 1 and 2 of the Auditor-General's report 2012.

It lists the latest comments and actions by the head of services on the issues raised in the report.

The content of the Series 1 and 2 of the Auditor-General's Report 2012 and its synopsis is available on the Auditor General's Department website at as of today.

Tabled on time

The audit report and feedback report CD was distributed to the media at Parliament House today.

Both the reports must be read together in order to have a comprehensive and latest overview of the issues.

The report comes in a total of 32 volumes, copies of which were given to all 222 parliamentarians.

Unlike delays in the previous years, the report was this time tabled on time, before the tabling of Budget 2014.

NONEIn his foreword, Auditor-General Ambrin Buang (right) says the reports are based on programmes/activities and projects of the ministries or government departments.

In general, he says that there are still weaknesses in improper payment, works/supply/services, works not according to specifications, wastage, weakness in management of the assets, not supervising the works tendered.

In the previous report, the AG highlighted several anomalies and irregularities in government spending, while noting that the Pakatan Rakyat-controlled state governments had improved in their financial management.

Tweeting his initial observation, Ong Kian Ming (DAP-Serdang) noted that Khazanah employees had  RM1.26 million of undeclared credit card bills.


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